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So. Let's talk for a moment about why "get rid of Trump and Barr to restore justice" is imperfect.
/1 https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1286324251415511040?s=20
/1 https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1286324251415511040?s=20
/2 Americans have a long-standing habit of focusing on simple, flashy, transitory problems to the exclusion of complex, systemic, cultural problems in criminal justice. Usually we focus on the problems that support our political priors.
/3 For instance, after 9/11, many injustices and abuses were misleadingly attributed to the PATRIOT Act, when in fact they represented long-standing practices. And Trump supporters clutch pearls when confronted with utterly routine practices applied against, among others, Flynn.
/4 I don't fault Judge Hellerstein's finding on Cohen's remand on this record. But, as @ReichlinMelnick points out, there's also evidence that it was a result of ingrained lawlessness indifference to inmate rights rather than specific animus. https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1286328781419024384?s=20
/5 That ingrained lawlessness and indifference to humans ground up by the system - that banal evil - is far more prevalent and devastating than the high-profile hamfisted corruption of Trump and Barr.
/6 So, though we absolutely should fight against the open and public despoliation of the system occurring in high-profile cases, we can't be satisfied with that; we must focus on the daily grinding inhumanity. https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1286330762111983616?s=20
/7 In short, getting rid of Trump and Barr is necessary but the merest drop in the bucket of addressing a broken system.
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